Passion essential oil blend dōTERRA | 5 ml

dōTERRA distils it in Madagascar from fresh, undried rhizomes, which preserves a rounder aromatic profile. The zingiberene it contains brings that recognisable spiced warmth, at once pungent and sweet. It is the ingredient that gives the blend its comforting character.

Its white flowers release their scent only at night, which calls for picking before dawn. Too fragile for steam distillation, they go through extraction instead, hence the term absolute. The result is heady, rich, recognisable among all others.

Indian sandalwood, whose ritual use goes back more than four thousand years. The tree must reach some thirty years of age before its heartwood is rich enough to be distilled. Its creamy, milky scent lasts for hours on the skin: the base note par excellence.

Its star-shaped yellow flowers, picked by hand early in the morning, have been used in South-East Asian ceremonies for centuries. Rich in benzyl benzoate, its scent is intensely floral, almost heady. It is a signature you recognise the moment the bottle is opened.

Cold-pressed from the peel, with no heat and no solvent, which preserves its freshness. Its very high limonene content makes it one of the brightest oils in the range. It opens the blend on a lively note before the spices take over.

A tree whose white flowers last only a day, which calls for picking by hand every morning. Its scent is floral and fruity, lighter than jasmine, with an almost tea-like facet. It is one of the most delicate ingredients in the range.

Cold-pressed from the peel, never from the juice: it takes some sixty lemons to fill a 15 ml bottle. Its limonene, by far the main component, gives that clean, immediate aroma everyone recognises. It is one of the most widely used oils in the world.

A plant from the ginger family, distilled from its seeds. Its terpinyl acetate and 1,8-cineole bring the spiced roundness that softens the whole and signs the final aroma.

A demanding citrus that yields fine fruit only under a very particular climate, mainly in Calabria. The peel is cold-pressed, never the juice. Its scent, at once bright and floral, is the most delicate of the whole citrus family.

A tropical evergreen that reaches fourteen metres, distilled from its inner bark, the very one that curls into sticks. Its cinnamaldehyde gives that warm, sweet aroma recognisable among a thousand others. It is the dominant ingredient of the blend, the one that gives it its identity.

A shrub of the arid zones of Mexico and Central America, with small yellow flowers. Its leaves, dried and then extracted, give off a warm scent, faintly spiced and herbaceous. Rare in perfumery, it gives the blend a note of its own.

The pods smell of nothing at harvest: it is a long scalding followed by months of drying that brings the vanillin into being. Too fragile for distillation, vanilla goes through extraction instead, hence the term absolute. It softens and extends every other ingredient.